Apollo Hospitals plans 5,000 isolation rooms, Covid-19 treatment on anvil

Four testing labs already in place, 13 more to be set up; full scale testing by March-end

The Apollo Hospitals Group has announced plans to set up about 5,000 isolation rooms in major cities to quarantine Covid-19 positive cases, start fever clinics and establish more collection points to fight the epidemic under its Project Kavach initiative. The industry has sought government support for private sector hospitals to survive while working with it on Covid-19.

The country's largest hospital chain has said that it has already opened four testing labs for Covid-19 testing, and will ramp it up to 17 labs soon. The complete infrastructure is expected to be in place by March end and full-scale testing, which includes